[Quincy Lehr]

I'm posting this because Nigel and Rose... er, aren't here anymore, and Angela never was.

There's a lot of good stuff in the issue, though, as well as, for better or worse, two of mine:

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue11/

Check it out.

[Ned Balbo]

I think the poem about your dad's renunciation of German heritage is very, very good. I'm really interested in these periods of history in which ethnicity is effaced under threat. You capture it very well, Quincy.

[Quincy Lehr]

Well, my grandfather on my mother's side. My father was only born in 1942. (Though the gravestone was my great-great grandmother on my father's side. One can conflate these things in poems, I think.)

Glad you liked the poem.

[Adam Elgar]

Thanks for the news, Quincy - this is really strong, necessary work. Great to see David there too.
Poetry for times of war - ie. all times.

[Ned Balbo]

Quincy, since I'm older, I think I just made the connection of WWII generation with "parents" as soon as the poem wasn't on screen...! It's a good poem even when misremembered....